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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] http://www.grindstaffchronicles.com
  • Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:27:28 -0700

Why bless your little heart, dahlin. No one paid any attention to your other posts so you have gotten desperate. Poor little wanker, are you that lonely that even negative attention is better than no attention at all? Must be since it appears you are so desperately crying out for attention from someone from EE VIL California <g>

Just curious, have you been having these problems with your memory for very long? Might want to see someone about this problem. To refresh your failing memory, it was the U.S. I talked about, not the Philippines. Don't have to take my word for it, you can type your little fingers away and look up S.J.15 (introduced by Senator Brownback of Kansas) and H.J. RES. 3 (introduced by Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis of Virginia), or you can look into that little section of PHS (Public Health Services) known as Population Affairs. Dr. Louis Hellman, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population Affairs presented statistics confirming that the U.S. gave federal grants for sterilizing low income people, funds reimbursing states for 90% of the cost of sterilizing indigent women.
Now, since you seem interested in locals other than the U.S., maybe you'd be interested in the funding through the Rockefeller Foundation for the sterilization of Columbian women. Or the U.S. imposed population control program administered by the Peace Corps who sterilized Quechua Indian women in Bolivia.

But I bet you were really referring to me quoting ol' Bushy I when he was a UN ambassador. I can't possibly be held responsible for his involvement in eugenics and saying "It is quite clear that one of the major challenges of the 1970s will be to curb the world's fertility." I mean, you can't blame me because he worked hand in glove with Willliam H. Draper III. I didn't invent the Sterilization Council or Dulles and Rockefeller's Population Council. I didn't make the Bushies become members of the American Eugenics Society. I didn't make then UN Ambassador Bush push the U.S. Agency for International Development to sign a contract with the Sterilization League of America.

Oh, I get it. I don't pretend all that didn't happen, won't help rewrite history to make them look like good guys, so therefore, following your twisted logic, then I must be spinning.

That's o.k., I'm sure folks can see for themselves who is hysterical and flaming and who finds some folks an amusing example of why Ronnie Baby shouldn't have closed up all those "country clubs."

So, since I wouldn't want you to get some major "error" readings in your wee little brain and have you blow all your circuits by believing anything I have to say, here's a list to help you can do some reading and educate yourself:
Beverly Horsburgh, Schr degreesodinger's Cat, Eugenics, and the Compulsory Sterilization of Welfare Mothers: Deconstructing an Old/New Rhetoric and Constructing the Reproductive Right to Natality for Low-Income Women of Color, 17 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 536 (1996).
Herbert Hovenkamp, Social Science and Segregation before Brown, 1985 Duke L.J. 624.

Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald, Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers (1993).

Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Societal History of Birth Control in America (rev. ed. 1990).

The Immigration Act of 1924, ch.190, §11(a), 43 Stat. 153, 159, amended by The Immigration and Nationality Act, ch. 477, §201, 66 Stat. 175 (1952), amended by Pub. L. No. 89-236, §1, 79 Stat. 911 (1965).

Leon J. Kamin, The Pioneers of IQ Testing, in The Bell Curve Debate (1995).

Howard M. Sachar, A History of Jews in America (1992).

Adam Miller, Professors of Hate, in The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions (Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman eds., 1995).

Robert N. Proctor, Genomics and Eugenics: How Fair is the Comparison?, in Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as Guides.

Charles Rutherford, Reproductive Freedoms and African American Women, 4 YALE J.L. & FEMINISM 255 (1992).

Relf v. Weinberger, 372 F. Supp. 1196, 1199 (D.D.C. 1974).

American Indian Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, (Feb. 1977).

Akwesasne Notes, Sterilization of Young Native Women Alleged at Indian Hospital (July, 1974).

Helen Temkin-Greener, Surgical Fertility Regulation Among Women on the Navajo Indian Reservation, American Journal of Public Health, (April, 1981).

Brint Dillingham, American Indian Women and I.H.S. Sterilization Practices, American Indian Journal (January 1977).

Margot Liberty, Rural and Urban Omaha Indian Fertility, Human Biology (February 1976).

Gayle Mark Jarvis, The Theft of Life, Akwesasne Notes (1977).

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Indian Health Trends and Services [report] (GPO, 1978).

Leslie A. Westoff and Charles F. Westoff, From Now to Zero, Little, Brown & Co. (1971).

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Family Planning, Contraception, Voluntary Sterilization and Abortion, (GPO, 1978).

Mark Miller, Native American Peoples on the Trail of Tears Once More, America (December 1978).

Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments, Akwesasne Notes (Autumn, 1977).

Bill Wagner, Lo the Poor and Sterilized Indian, America (January 29, 1977).

Janet Karstan Larson, And Then There Were None: Is Federal Policy Endangering the American Indian Species?, Christian Century (January 26, 1977).

Thomas B. Littlewood, The Politics of Population Control, The University of Notre Dame Press (1977).

And then you can read Relf et al. v. Weinberger et al. and National Welfare Rights Organization v. Weinberger et al.

Then proceed to the September 21, 1972 Federal Register for the HEW regulations which were amended. Then again to 18 April 1974, for new regulations that were amended due to the above referenced cases.

I would also refer you to Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Interior Subcommittee on Indian Affairs who conducted an initial investigation of charges of involuntary sterilizations and who inturn referred his findings to the GAO on 30 April 1975 for further investigation. Said report was released 6 November 1976.

Add to the reading material Dr. Connie Pinkerton-Uri's study. The 1977 National Council of Church's Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization conference in DC.

And for the rest of your lonely days, here is more reading material, these Notes should keep you too busy to throw online temper tantrums for attention:
Gail Mark Jarvis, "The Theft of Life," Akwesasne Notes (September 1977):

Mark Miller, Judith Miller, and Chris Szechenyl, "Native American Peoples on the Trail of Tears Once More," America 139 (9 December 1978)

"Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," Akwesasne Notes 9 (early spring 1977): 4; Brint Dillingham, "Indian Women and Indian Health Services Sterilization Practices," American Indian Journal 3 (January 1977): 27-28; Janet Karston Larson, "'And Then There Were None,'" Christian Century 26 (January 1977): 62-63; "Marie Sanchez: For the Women," Akwesasne Notes 9 (December 1977): 14-15; and James Robison, "U.S. Sterilizes 25 Percent of Indian Women: Study," Chicago Tribune, 22 May 1977, sec. 1, p. 36.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, The Indian Health Program of the U.S. Public Health Service (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1969), 17; Alan L. Sorkin, "Health and Economic Development," in Public Policy Impacts on American Indian Economic Development," (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988), 145; and Deborah A. Sullivan and Ruth Beeman, Utilization and Evaluation of Maternity Care by American Indians in Arizona, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982), 1.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, The Indian Health Program, 17; Sorkin, "Health and Economic Development," 145; J. G. Townshend, "Indian Health--Past, Present, and Future," in The Changing Indian, ed. Oliver LaFarge (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942), 31; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Evaluation Report: The Indian Health Service's Implementation of the Indian Self-Determination Process, by the National Indian Health Board and American Indian Technical Services (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, April 1984), 4. The Public Health Service was originally created in 1798 to provide for the health care of mariners. The service's responsibilities expanded in the late 1800s to include the health care needs of the nation, and in 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower placed the Public Health Service under the control of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Francis Paul Prucha, Documents of United States Indian Policy, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975), 237; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health Service, The Indian Health Program of the U.S. Public Health Service, (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1978), 19; Sorkin, "Health and Economic Development," 146; and John L. Schultz, White Medicine, Indian Lives . . . As Long As the Grass Shall Grow (Denver: Colorado State University Press, 1983), 11.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, The Indian Health Program (1978), 20-21; and Sorkin, "Health and Economic Development," 146, and 149-52.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Indian Health Trends and Services (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1974), 66; and Leslie Aldridge Westoff and Charles F. Westoff, From Now to Zero: Fertility, Contraception and Abortion in America, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), 302.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health Service, Indian Health Trends and Services (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1975), 16.

Marc D. Hiller, Medical Ethics and the Law: Implications for Public Policy, (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1981), 198.

Kermit L. Hall, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 788; and Robert G. Weisbord, Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1975), 139.

John Morton Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 200; and Hall, The Oxford Companion, 351-53.

Dick Grosboll, "Sterilization Abuse: Current State of the Law and Remedies for Abuse," Golden Gate University Law Review 10 (summer 1980), 1149-50.

Katie Relf et al., plaintiffs, v. Casper W. Weinberger et al., defendants [and] National Welfare Rights Organization, plaintiff, v. Casper W. Weinberger et al., defendants, Federal Supplement: Cases Argued and Determined in the United States District Courts, United States Customs Courts, and Rulings of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 372 (District of Columbia, 1974), 1201.

A. Edward Doudera, "Informed Consent: How Much Should the Patient Know?" in Rights and Responsibilities in Modern Medicine, Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine, vol. 2, ed. Marc D. Basson (New York: Alan R. Liss, 1981), 102-4; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Legal Aspects of PHS Medical Care, by Eli P. Bernzweig, Office of the General Council, PHS Publication no. 1468 (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1966), 28 and 30; and Hiller, Medical Ethics and the Law, 102 and 198.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of the Secretary, "Sterilization Guidelines," Federal Register 38 (3 August 1973), 20930-31; and U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of the Secretary, "Sterilization Guidelines," Federal Register 38 (21 September 1973), 26459-61.

"Katie Relf et al., plaintiffs," 1201-3; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, "Policies of General Applicability: Restrictions Applicable to Sterilization Procedures in Federally Assisted Family Planning Projects," Federal Register 39 (18 April 1974), 13873.

International Indian Treaty Council, "Memo to Karl/Perry/Phil from Patty Marks/Abourezk Office, re: Native American Sterilization," (1978), n.p.

Dillingham, "Indian Women and IHS Sterilization Practices," 27-28; Bill Wagner, "Lo, the Poor and Sterilized Indian," America 136 (29 January 1977): 75; and Jarvis, "The Theft of Life," 30-32.

Comptroller of the United States, Investigations of Allegations Concerning Indian Health Services (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 4 November 1976), 4, 18-20, and 25.

Comptroller of the United States, Investigations of Allegations Concerning Indian Health Services, 19-20, 24; Larson, "'And Then There Were None,'" 61-62; "Sterilization of Young Native Women Alleged at Indian Hospital--48 Operations in July, 1974 Alone," Akwesasne Notes (early summer, 1974), 22; and Harry Amana, "Legal Defense Fund Benefit Set For Indian Woman: Says She Was Illegally Sterilized," Philadelphia Tribune (15 May 1976), G3.

Comptroller of the United States, Investigations of Allegations Concerning Indian Health Services, 20.

Lucille Whalen, Human Rights: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara: University of California Press, 1989), 169. For information on sterilizations of African American and Hispanic women see Sherrill Cohen and Nadine Taub, eds., Reproductive Laws for the 1990s (Clifton NJ: Humana Press, 1989), 12, 45-47, and 354; Linda Jenness, "Black Women Fight Sterilization," The Militant 39 (15 August 1975), 12; Mariana Hernandez, "L.A. Women Protest Forced Sterilizations," The Militant 38 (20 December 1974), 17; Kathy Schwerin, Pippa Franks, and the San Francisco Women's Health Center, "San Francisco Women's Health Center," Off Our Backs, Inc., Washington, (October 1976), 3-4; and Thomas Littlewood, The Politics of Population Control (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), 80-81. For information on physicians' attitudes toward the sterilization of minority women see Bernard Rosenfeld, Sidney M. Wolfe, and Robert E. McGarrah Jr., A Health Research Group Study on Surgical Sterilization: Present Abuses and Proposed Regulations (Washington DC: Health Research Group, 29 October 1973), 2-7; Harry Ring, "Doctor Exposes Forced Sterilization in L.A.," The Militant 39 (5 September 1975), 26; and "Survey Reveals Many Doctors 'Actively Push' Sterilizations: 'Many of the Women Didn't Really Understand What Was Going On,'" Liberation News Service 673 (25 January 1975), 12.

Brint Dillingham, "Sterilization of Native Americans," American Indian Journal 3 (January 1977): 16; Jarvis, "The Theft of Life," 30-33; "Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," 4-6; Larson, "'And Then There Were None,'" 61-63; Miller, "Native American People On the Trail of Tears," 422-25; Robison, "U.S. Sterilizes 25 Percent of Indian Women: Study," 36; Margot Liberty, "Rural and Urban Omaha Indian Fertility," Human Biology (February 1976): 69; Rosemary Lynch, "Leadership and Tribal Government," Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 23 October 1981, 48; and Greg Turosak, "Charting a Path For the Future," Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 23 October 1981, 49.

Brint Dillingham, "Sterilization: A Conference and a Report," American Indian Journal 4 (January 1978): 13.

Rosemary Lynch, "Leadership and Tribal Government," Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 23 October 1981, 48; and Greg Turosak, "Charting a Path For the Future," Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 23 October 1981, 49.

"Growing Fight Against Sterilization of Native Women," Akwesasne Notes 11 (late winter 1979), 29; Everett R. Rhoades, "Barriers to Health Care: The Unique Problems Facing American Indians," Civil Rights Digest 10 (fall 1977): 31; and Women of All Red Nations (Porcupine SD: WARN, 1977), 23.

"Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," 4; Robison, "U.S. Sterilizes 25 Percent of Indian Women: Study," 36; Brint Dillingham, "Sterilization of Native Americans," American Indian Journal 3 (July 1977): 16; "Growing Fight Against Sterilization of Native Women," 29; Jarvis, "The Theft of Life," 30-33; "Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," 4-6; Larson, "'And Then There Were None,'" 61-63; Miller, "Native American People On the Trail of Tears," 422-25; "Oklahoma: Sterilization of Native Women," Akwesasne Notes 6 (early winter 1974) 6-7; and Women of All Red Nations, 7 and 14.

"Marie Sanchez: For the Women," Akwesasne Notes 9 (December 1977), 14-15; Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, Lakota Woman (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990), 78 and 244; Clark, Culture/Childbearing Health Professionals, 24; Robert M. Veatch, Population Policy and Ethics: The American Experience: A Project of the Research Group on Ethics and Population of the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences (New York: Halsted Press, 1977), 9 and 239; and Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins, and Michael Gross, eds., Birth Control and Controlling Birth (Clifton NJ: Humana Press, 1980): 253.

Ann Clark, Culture/Childbearing Health Professionals (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1978), 28; David E. Jones, Sanapia: Comanche Medicine Woman (Prospect Heights IL: Waveland Press, 1984), 57-60; Eric Stone, "Medicine Among the American Indians," in Clio Medica, Primers on the History of Medicine, vol. 7, ed. E. B. Krumbhaar (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1932; reprint, New York: Hafner, 1962), 154-57 (page citations are to the reprint edition); Valerie S. Mathes, "A New Look at the Role of Women in Indian Society," American Indian Quarterly 2 (summer 1975), 133-34; and Virgil J. Vogel, American Indian Medicine (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970), 239-45.

Myla F. Thyrza Carpio, "Lost Generation: The Involuntary Sterilization of American Indian Women" (master's thesis, Arizona State University, 1995), 31-34; Larry Blackwood, "Alaska Native Fertility Trends, 1950-1978," Demography 18 (May 1981), 173 and 177; Charles W. Warren et al., "Assessing the Reproductive Behavior of On- and Off-reservation American Indian Females," Social Biology 37 (spring-summer 1990), 71-72 and 76-82; David Glenn Smith, "Fertility Differentials within a Subdivided Population: A Controlled Comparison of Four Sells Papago Isolates," Human Biology 52 (May 1980), 325-26, 330-31, and 334-38; Margot Liberty, Richard Scaglion, and David V. Hughey, "Rural and Urban Seminole Indian Fertility," Human Biology 48 (December 1976), 741-42, 743-44, and 746-50; Stephen J. Kunitz, "Navajo and Hopi Fertility, 1971-1972," Human Biology 46 (September 1974), 435-36 and 448-50; and Stephen J. Kunitz, "Fertility, Mortality, and Social Organization," Human Biology 48 (May 1976), 361-64 and 374-76.

Jane Lawrence, "Indian Health Service: Sterilization of Native American Women, 1960s-1970s," (master's thesis, Oklahoma State University, 1999), 97-98.

Now if this doesn't keep you busy enough, you might try the National Academies Press. They have multiple articles. Or, if you *honestly* are interested, you can go to the National Archieves or head on over to the Mormons and look at the hundreds, if not thousands of relevant documentation they have.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>


Hey Lyndie, spin for us once again that yarn about the Bushies and the
sterilizations in the Philippines. Maybe you can work Ken Lay and
Arnold in there somewhere. It was great entertainment, the sort I live for.





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